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Director Kyle Alvarez and the psychology of power in The Stanford Prison Experiment

You think you know yourself. You think you know what you are, and what you can be. You see others in power and scoff at their...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

The sweet taste of Tangerine

If I were you, I’d stop reading this review right now. Not because of spoilers, and not because my words are meaningless,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Stung: when bugs fight back

Insects. Creepy crawlers. Creepy Fliers. Whatever you want to call them, or whatever shape they may come in, bugs are, for a...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Bound to Vengeance is the thriller that never quits thrilling

Revenge, I hear, is sweet. It can come in both small and large packages, and when done juuuust right, it can send chills of intoxicating...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

The Wolfpack: escaping captivity and exploring the wilderness

We don’t really think about changing our past. We’re interested in moving forward. - Narayana Angulo When you’ve...

Cooper Copeland

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The Stranger is a valiant effort that doesn't quite live up to its potential

You know when your mother told you, and rather dramatically so, to never talk to strangers? If you, like me, happened to shrug...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

The Entourage entourage reunites on the big screen

Movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), together with his boys Eric (Kevin Connelly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), and Johnny (Kevin...

Frederick Mintchell

Film Movie Reviews

Eden unearths the grim backstory of EDM’s rise to popularity

If you’re walking by a club and you hear the unearthly boom of bass, the contagious beats of synth, and the roaring cheers...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

How love trumps loss in Testament of Youth

When Vera Brittain sent her brother, her best friend, and her lover off to war, there was little indication of the darkness she...

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Film Interviews

In director Rick Famuyiwa's Dope, style is a matter of fact

There’s a lot of words out there that make people uncomfortable, and “different” is probably one of the most...

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Film Special Features

2015 Los Angeles Film Festival announces its line-up for June 10-18

The Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Blog

The Hollywood Reporter's 50 of the worst movie titles of all time

From John Carter to Santa With Muscles to Dude, Where's My Car? to Phffft to just plain No, Hollywood has produced a spectrum...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Interviews

Aloft - A conversation with Claudia Llosa on our lost mythical nature

Of all the certainties in the world, death is the one that is easiest to deny and cast aside until it inevitably affects you...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Sunshine Superman (Magnolia Pictures)

There are those who watch from the safety of the ground, who mask their eyes against the sun to catch a glimpse of someone who...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Charlize Theron is fast and 'Furiosa' in Mad Max: Fury Road

The action genre was traditionally dominated by male protagonists while the female characters were relegated to the sidelines....

Frederick Mintchell

Film Blog

Our 22 most anticipated films of the summer

After a somewhat snoozy winter in the theaters, it is finally time for the loud and boisterous movie season to begin. This summer,...

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Film Movie Reviews

Saint Laurent's portraiture of a troubled genius

When he looked at a woman’s form, he saw something others couldn’t. The curves, the delicacy of their angles, and...

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Film TV Time

Don Draper Must Die

The final season of “Mad Men,” AMC’s sex, drugs, and advertising drama, has begun and it has fans bubbling...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

Film Movie Reviews

Finally, an accurate portrait of Kurt Cobain in Montage of Heck

Montage of Heck is the story of a man. It is the unsanitized dissection of the Kurt Cobain myth—a legend beset by very mortal...

Jeffrey Trujillo

Film Blog

Korean movies to stream on Facebook for the first time; including Friend II for free April 16

CJ Entertainment, Asia’s premier entertainment company and Korea’s #1 filmmaker and distributor, announced today...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Special Features

Paul Weitz’s Grandma to open 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival this June 10-18

LOS ANGELES (April 7, 2015) – Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent with Presenting Media Sponsor...

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Film Interviews

Rock n' roll rebellion with Lambert and Stamp

If you look at the best bands over the generations, chances are you look to the stage, to the instruments, to the players who...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

The perils of playing god in Ex Machina

We long for artificial intelligence, yet we’re also terrified of it. From Stephen Hawking to Hollywood, everyone seems to have...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

Film Movie Reviews

Serena aims for Shakespearean tragedy, ends up just tragedy

Seven years ago, producer Nick Wechsler stumbled upon the manuscript of Ron Rash’s yet-to-be-published southern gothic,...

Taylor Link

Film Interviews

Exclusive interview with the cast and crew of Insurgent

For all of those that might have been disappointed by Catching Fire, Part 1, and the hour and a half of plot building that came...

Patrick Meissner

Film Movie Reviews

Sebastião Salgado's photography comes alive in The Salt of the Earth

By looking at a photograph, we see a translation of perception—perception that is bindingly unique to the photographer...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Exposing sexual assault on campuses in The Hunting Ground

When documentarian Kirby Dick made his groundbreaking film The Invisible War (2012), he was unveiling the masked evils that lay...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Director Pierre Morel discusses his influences, his dream job and his latest film, The Gunman

Pierre Morel is no stranger to action. Before directing his latest movie, The Gunman, he directed Taken and From Paris with Love,...

Frederick Mintchell

Film Interviews

It Follows, the stuff nightmares are made of

Before he was directing films, a young David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover, 2010) was haunted by nightmares—nightmares...

Cooper Copeland

Film Blog

Derek Zoolander surprises fashion world, turns left?

In what might be the most shocking news of the day, Derek Zoolander has allegedly just turned left. Fashion fans in attendance...

Dashel Pierson Plesa